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Monthly Archives: December 2005
Continuous Developer and QA Builds Unusable
A season’s greeting Flockstars! Flock’s continuous developer and QA (tinderbox) builds have been very broken since Thursday morning. Termie has checked in significant code to take the favorites manager much better, but it has temporarily broken most everything. Termie had hoped to get this fixed yesterday, but was not successful.
WIP 20051222 Thursday
Thursday, I spent my time:
- Confirm and verify bugs.
- Reading a lot of blogs related to Flock and Performance.
I ended my day a little early since it was my 28th Birthday!
Tasks for soon:
- Work with community on strategy that with submitter’s permission feedback goes to community, unless submitter wants private feedback.
- Work with Mercurial and build instructions.
- QA stats for community contribution.
technorati tags: wip,flock.com, qa
Performancing for Flock
Performancing for FirefoxFlock
Thanks to David Dunn and his Flockd (and bigger thanks to Performancing LLC for a sane implimentation) I am writing this post from Performancing in a Flock developers’ continuous build from today. These are fantastic exciting times! I am very impressed with Performancing, and excited to play with it, partly to look for ways to improve Flock’s blog editor, and the rest of Flock’s experience.
My biggest gripe with it so far is its name. “Performancing” follows the fine tradition of extensions like the wonderful FlashGot in having a name that not only does not tell what it is, but makes me think it is something else such as Faster Fox.
Bugs I see in Performancing:
- Discoverability of performancing. Right click was about the 3rd place I looked.
- I saw WordPress.com in the list of Blog types, and made the mistake of trying to configure for my own site. Poor error message, and let me continue adding that account.
- Next button is always available during setup.
- I clicked Notes -> “Example Note 1″ and overwrote my blog post! Destructive operations are bad.
- Not being able to highlight and copy text in “Settings” and “About”. This is a pet peeve of mine.
- The “title” field font is too small
Other comments about Performancing:
- Split Panes make me feel uneasy that I am going to lose the content.
- Split Pane affects the experience of all the other tabs in the window.
Questions about Performancing:
- How to Save as Draft?
- Different between Rich (normal) Editing and Live Preview?
- I notice that you include some of Deepestsender licenced code, is it GPL? What version? Previously, I was not able to get an answer to that, when I had wanted to look at the code. I just downloaded deepestsender-0.7.0 and still do not see a license file.
Consideration for Flock
- Using Midas or TinyMCE within Flock makes a lot of sense for a consistent experience for users. Particularly if Composer ala Nvu becomes more specialized for smart web editing. “Gerv: my improvements to the core editor will certainly not be helpful to Flock. They’re so related to web page authoring – and not article authoring for a blog – that they’re out of scope here” Daniel Glazman
- High contrast on the editor buttons?
- A quote button?
- Maybe an image URL button
- Edit text Color?
Notes:
WIP 20051220 Tuesday
Tuesday, I spent my time:
- Confirm and verify bugs
- There are now no unread mails to [email protected]
- Mentoring eletido (aka Jon of gamer-station.net) in basics of QA. Fast learner!
Tasks for Wednesday:
- Confirm and verify bugs.
- Feedback mail has grown to 2926 unread
- Test Photo Browser and Uploader
Tasks for soon:
- Work with community on strategy that with submitter’s permission feedback goes to community, unless submitter wants private feedback.
- Work with Mercurial and build instructions.
- QA stats for community contribution.
Everyday I learn something…
strange!
Today I learned about the Jupiter Ace Resource site from a Flockstar named Morrigan.
The Jupiter ACE was a British home computer of the 1980s, marketed by a company named Jupiter Cantab. The company was formed by Richard Altwasser and Stephen Vickers, who had been on the design team for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Jupiter Ace Resource Site – What is a Jupiter Ace?
Site made to work with the web browser Flock
A 1980 computer with a resource site in 2005! It must be a special machine 
Jupiter Ace Resource Site – Introduction and Home page.
I appreciate the link to Flock, but I can’t image anything being needed to make the site work with Flock. If Jupiter ACE could run Flock, that would be something!
technorati tags: flock
WIP 20051212
Daryl was really ill today. Get well friend!
Charles Fenwick and Mark Swan continue to both make very significant contributions to confirm Flock bugs are valid and verify bugs are fixed. The projects success will be their success.
It is awesome having Vera as a full time Flocker, and in the office. She has wonderful energy and experience to share.
Sunday and today, I spent my time:
- Bugs. I viewed over 300 bug emails, and 103 of those bugs have been updated since 2005-12-11, many by me.
- I continued to mentor Jake Dahn in basic white box QA. He has updated 11 bugs since Sunday. Some of them complex! He is a learning quickly, and almost has the beast of Bugzilla in his control.
- I cleanup up at least two wiki spam attacks, hopefully Gandalf can reduce this issue (bug).
- I have cleaned Robin’s bugs very thoroughly, so no excuses from him about managing his bugs.
- Both Adblock and Grease Monkey on Extend work again, big thanks to Jake and Manish.
- Confirmed status of Bart‘s must have list in bugzilla.
Tasks for Tuesday:
- Work with Termie, Anthony, and Chris on their respective bug lists.
- Work with Mercurial and build instructions.
- Confirm and verify bugs.
- Feedback mail has grown to 2898 unread (+57 from Friday)
To not do (myself):
- Check with Daryl on status of publishing spec.
Tasks for soon:
- Work with community on strategy that with submitter’s permission feedback goes to community, unless submitter wants private feedback.
Flock Change Log 20051208
New breaks:
Fresh fix, need to verified:
- 1651 – Blog Editor Close Dialog Buttons.
- 1657 – Blog Settings dialog is too thin.
- 1703 – Click on search box with existing term should select all.
- 1633 – Blog editor add link button should be pre-populated with “http://”.
I would appreciate help verifying these bugs are fixed as well!
technorati tags: change log, flock.com, QA
WIP 20051208
Today, I spent my time in :
- Robin led meeting with Daryl, Manish, and Gandalf on sysadm position to fill.
- Robin led meeting about release status, and measuring status.
- Meeting with Gandalf and Robin about Bugzilla, Firefox 2.0 roadmap.
- Meetings with Chris, Vera, and Daryl about web, community infrastructure and strategy.
Tasks for tonight and tomorrow:
- Charles Fenwick did some more excellent bugzilla QA work, and I want to follow up on some of the bugs.
- Work with Anthony on his bug list
- Confirm Bart‘s must have list is all in the spec, which Daryl is working on publishing
- Ian did an awesome job of working through his bug list, so I need to review the current state of all those bugs, and Andy has attacked his bug list too.
- Feedback mail has grown to 2841 unread (+19 today)
- Gandalf and Robin are at HQ, and there are a couple items to work with each of them on.
To not do (myself):
- Ask Manish status of feed service functional regression.
- Remind Daryl/Manish to update versions of adblock and grease monkey at extend.flock.com.
- Ask Daryl status of publishing spec.
WIP 20051207
Today, I spent my time:
- Worked with Ian on resolving not prompted to login to delicious
- Worked with Yosh on his bug list, mostly Feeds component
- Mentored Flockstar Jake Dahn in bug confirming, and finding and confirming adblock and grease monkey extensions that work with Flock, now it is in Daryl’s competent hands to update them.
Tasks for tomorrow:
- Work with Anthony on his bug list
- Confirm Bart‘s must have list is all in the spec, which Daryl is working on publishing
- Ian did an awesome job of working through his bug list, so I need to review the current state of all those bugs.
- Feedback mail has grown to 2824 unread
- Robin, Gandalf, and Daryl are at HQ, and there are a couple items to work with each of them on.
- I will start a daily change log!